Display Data from the Northwind Service

Newer versions of the easy-ui5 generator create projects that contain two views out of the box: The App.view.xml, which is the outer container of the application, and the MainView.view.xml, where you can start developing your application content right away. At this point, it makes sense to rename the MainView.view.xml to something more meaningful.

1. Rename the file MainView.view.xml to Products.view.xml.
2. In the Products.view.xml file, replace all references to MainView with Products.
3. Rename the file MainView.controller.js to Products.controller.js.
4. In the Products.controller.js file, replace all references to MainView with Products.
5. In the manifest.json file, replace all references to MainView with Products.

Replace the current content of the Products.view.xml with a page that contains one list that uses an aggregation binding.

```XML [4-10]
<mvc:View controllerName="tutorial.products.controller.Products" displayBlock="true"
  xmlns="sap.m"
  xmlns:mvc="sap.ui.core.mvc">
  <Page id="Products" title="Available Products">
    <content>
      <List items="{/Products}">
        <StandardListItem type="Active" title="{ProductName}" />
      </List>
    </content>
  </Page>
</mvc:View>
```

You’ll immediately be able to see that the App.view.xml embeds the Products.view.xml and displays an empty list. The list is still empty, because there is not data source bound to the application yet.

To populate the list with items, bind a data source to the application. For this, there exists another sub-generator:

You can find a list of all available sub-generators on GitHub.

yo easy-ui5 project newmodel

Again, please accept the modification of the manifest file.

The generator will name the data source based on the URL you specified. You can replace the name in the manifest.json if you don’t like it.

1. All requests to the data source will be sent to <webapp URL>/V2/Northwind/Northwind.svc/.

   Modify the uimodule/webapp/xs-app.json file to redirect the traffic to a destination. Also, turn off the authentication and replace the entire file with the following content.

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   {
     "welcomeFile": "/index.html",
     "routes": [
       {
         "source": "^/V2/(.*)$",
         "authenticationType": "none",
         "destination": "Northwind",
         "csrfProtection": false
       },
       {
         "source": "^(.*)",
         "target": "$1",
         "authenticationType": "xsuaa",
         "service": "html5-apps-repo-rt"
       }
     ]
   }
   
   

2. You already created a destination named “Northwind” in Cloud Foundry environment of SAP BTP. Now it’s time to add a mocked destination to your local setup as well.

   Replace the empty array of the property destinations in the uimodule/ui5.yaml file to declare the local destination.

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           destinations:
             - name: "Northwind"
               url: "https://services.odata.org/"
   

   YAML is quite nice to read but writing can be cumbersome as the indention of the lines is crucial. Please make sure your file looks exactly as shown in the next screenshot. If you edit these files often, I recommend using IDE plugins to make your life easier like this one to validate the format

3. Switch to the first terminal session, stop the process and restart it. Restarting is necessary because the live-reload feature doesn’t notice changes in the ui5.yaml file.

<ctrl + c>
npm start

Alternatively, you can directly invoke npx ui5 serve -o test/flpSandbox.html, which is equivalent to npm start or run npx ui5 serve, the later one won’t open a new page in the browser.

Now you should see the Northwind products in the SAPUI5 list control:

In this step, you will add a detail page that shows some additional information. You will use an easy-ui5 sub-generator to create a new view.

1. Switch back to the second terminal session and run the same sub-generator as before.

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   yo easy-ui5 project newview
   

   Parameter	Value
   What is the name of the new view?	ProductDetail
   Would you like to create a corresponding controller as well?	Yes
   Do you want to add an OPA5 page object?	No
   Would you like to create a route in the manifest?	Yes

   Once again, accept that the generator can overwrite the manifest.json file.

2. Open the uimodule/webapp/manifest.json file and add the product ID to the pattern of the newly created route ProductDetail.

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   {
     "name": "ProductDetail",
     "pattern": "Product/{productId}",
     "target": [
       "TargetProductDetail"
     ]
   }
   

3. Change the type of the list items and an event listener in the uimodule/webapp/view/Products.view.xml file.

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   <StandardListItem type="Navigation" press="handleListItemPress" title="{ProductName}" />
   

   

4. Add navigation logic to the uimodule/webapp/controller/Products.controller.js to handle the press event.

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   sap.ui.define([
     "tutorial/products/controller/BaseController"
   ], function (Controller) {
     "use strict";
   
     return Controller.extend("tutorial.products.controller.Products", {
   
       handleListItemPress: function (oEvent) {
         var oRouter = sap.ui.core.UIComponent.getRouterFor(this);
         var selectedProductId = oEvent.getSource().getBindingContext().getProperty("ProductID");
         oRouter.navTo("ProductDetail", {
           productId: selectedProductId
         });
       }
     });
   });
   

   

5. Click on any list item. This should trigger a navigation to a new page.

1. Add controller logic to uimodule/webapp/controller/ProductDetail.controller.js to parse selected product from the routing arguments and to bind the product to the view.

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   sap.ui.define([
     "tutorial/products/controller/BaseController"
   ], function(Controller) {
     "use strict";
   
     return Controller.extend("tutorial.products.controller.ProductDetail", {
   
       onInit: function () {
         const oRouter = sap.ui.core.UIComponent.getRouterFor(this);
         oRouter.getRoute("ProductDetail").attachMatched(this._onRouteMatched, this);
       },
   
       _onRouteMatched: function (oEvent) {
         const iProductId = oEvent.getParameter("arguments").productId;
         const oView = this.getView();
         oView.bindElement({
           path: "/Products(" + iProductId + ")",
           events: {
             dataRequested: function () {
               oView.setBusy(true);
             },
             dataReceived: function () {
               oView.setBusy(false);
             }
           }
         });
       },
   
     });
   });
   

2. Add the required declarations to the uimodule/webapp/view/ProductDetail.view.xml view to display some properties.

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   <mvc:View controllerName="tutorial.products.controller.ProductDetail" displayBlock="true"
   xmlns="sap.m"
   xmlns:mvc="sap.ui.core.mvc">
     <Page id="ProductDetail" title="Detail Page">
       <VBox>
         <Text text="{ProductName}" />
         <Text text="{UnitPrice}" />
         <Text text="{QuantityPerUnit}" />
         <Text text="{UnitsInStock}" />
       </VBox>
     </Page>
   </mvc:View>
   

3. Once you saved the view, the web app should update automatically and display a view similar to this this one.